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Feat of engineering which connects Bakersfield to Mojave .

 

The loop takes its name from the circuitous route it takes, in which the track passes over itself, a design which lessens the angle of the grade. The loop gains a total of 77 feet in elevation as the track ascends at a sustained 2% grade.[1] A train more than 4,000 feet (1.2 km) long (about 85 boxcars) thus passes over itself going around the loop.

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Uploaded on December 24, 2010
Taken on April 18, 2009